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Calderas and Crater Lakes

This group collects the Volcanic Formations subcategory's members whose own description identifies them as a caldera, crater lake or maar, the large collapsed or explosion-formed hollow left behind after a volcanic eruption empties the magma chamber beneath a volcano or blasts out a crater at the surface. These features are grouped together because a caldera and a maar share the same basic origin, a hollow formed directly by an eruption rather than built up by accumulating lava or ash, setting them apart from the constructive volcano-type groups such as the stratovolcano and shield volcano groups above.

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A large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. 1
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1. Wikipedia: Caldera
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A caldera ( kawl-DERR-ə, kal-) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.
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